Ross Levin Joins Trading Apps

Ross brings over two decades of financial and technology expertise and will support Trading Apps’ continued efforts to innovate within the securities finance industry. He will focus on developing new products that address the growing demands of our customer base and tackle some of the industry’s biggest challenges.

“Joining Trading Apps is an exciting opportunity to drive forward transformative solutions in the securities finance industry,” explained Ross. “I will oversee Trading Apps’ efforts to enhance technology, focusing on improving efficiency and flexibility to meet the evolving needs of our clients.”

His career includes high-level positions in the financial industry. Most recently, he was the Global Head of Securities Lending Product at Wematch.live, where he drove the firm’s rapid expansion in U.S. and international markets..

Prior to Wematch, Ross led a transformational programme for a large Japanese bank’s Prime Brokerage division, assisted a healthcare organisation with digital transformation, and advised on a fintech startup’s tokenisation platform. At Tiger Securities / TradeUP Securities, he managed the implementation of U.S. self-clearing capabilities and spearheaded all securities lending initiatives.

From 2017 to 2021, Ross was Managing Director at Cowen, where he oversaw a middle office system processing over a billion trades annually and managed the implementation of securities finance services. He also led a multi-year back-office conversion initiative and established a PMO group.

Ross’s career also includes roles as Business & Product Development Director at Pleeco, optimising balance sheets for banks and broker-dealers, and at Itau BBA, where he launched a new Prime Services business. At Royal Bank of Scotland, he held multiple positions, including Head of Product Development for the Prime Services division, leading the efforts to create a global Prime custody model.

Commenting on Ross joining, Matthew Harrison, CEO, said, “Ross joining our fast-growing team in the US marks a significant step in broadening our reach and continuing to deliver best-in-class technology solutions to our customers. His deep expertise in Securities Finance will accelerate our new product development plans, and we’re excited for the next chapter in our growth.”

You can connect with Ross on LinkedIn here.

About Trading Apps

Trading Apps is an innovative global fintech specialising in software solutions for the securities finance industry. Established over a decade ago, it has developed a suite of cloud-based software solutions (‘Apps’) to automate transactional securities lending and borrowing, enabling users to scale their businesses, multiply trade volumes, and mitigate costly errors. It continuously evolves its product offering to meet the needs of both supply and demand-side clients.

In addition, Trading Apps has diversified and recently launched TA.Link, a SaaS-based messaging platform for the securities finance industry, enabling the communication of borrower requests, distribution of securities availability, trade negotiation, and post-trade lifecycle events such as re-rates. Uniquely, the platform will support both TA.Link native and Common Domain Model (CDM) message formats.